Both Uses of
despise
in
City of Bones
- He despised Downworlders and felt that they should be slaughtered, wholesale, to keep this world pure for human beings.†
Chpt 5 *despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- That's despicable.†
Chpt 23despicable = terrible (vile; disgusting) -- worthy of being strongly disliked and looked down uponstandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
Definition:
to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect